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First These Kentuckians Couldn't Drink The Water. Now They Can't Afford It

"Jasper Davis stoops to tilt a plastic bottle under a drip of water that's trickling from a crack in the mountainside.

'Tastes better than what the city water does,' he says. 'Way better.'

The spring is innocuous, a mere dribble emerging from a cliff face that was cut out to make room for a four-lane highway. But there's evidence of frequent visitors. A small footbridge has been placed over the muddy ground, and some enterprising soul shoved a rubber tube into the mountain to make filling jugs easier.

'You just stick your jug under there and just catch the water as it comes out, one jug at a time,' Davis says."

Sydney Boles reports for NPR October 31, 2019.

Source: NPR, 11/01/2019